The officials have always had and often exercised the right to hand out misconducts for kids aggressively hitting the boards in tantrum mode. This banging on the boards under any circumstance is just annoying

You’re also getting into the age groups of the kids that started playing cross ice as mites. This ADM stuff supposedly develops better players. The 2002 groups that are in their final year of U16 were in their last year of mites when ADM started.